{"id":290,"date":"2012-06-13T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:45:27","slug":"the-founder-of-pan-books-alan-bott-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2012\/06\/13\/the-founder-of-pan-books-alan-bott-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder OF PAN Books Alan Bott Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Extract.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-291\" title=\"Extract\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Extract.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While talking with <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Johnny Mains\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panbookofhorrorstories.co.uk\/\">Johnny Mains<\/a> we were trying to see if there was a link between Alan Bott and <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Herbert van Thal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Van_Thal\">Herbert van Thal<\/a>. They were both friendly with Sir Hugh Walpole and it is a distinct possibility that they could have met up socially at Brackenburn, Walpole&#8217;s house in the Lake District. Walpole, to celebrate his 50th birthday had privately printed and bound in vellum by The University Press, Glasgow 100 signed and numbered copies of his work &#8220;Extracts From A Diary&#8217; which he intended to give to his friends at his party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Walpole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-292 alignright\" title=\"Walpole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Walpole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unfortunately he wasn&#8217;t well on his birthday so the party was delayed as shown in a letter he wrote to Alan Bott. I was wondering if val Thal got one as well so I have been trying to track down other copies but although I have the following numbers and their locations only a couple have their recipients name shown in brackets. S\/C means they have a slip case and G\/J a glassine jacket.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">03 Tim Kitchen (Alan Bott)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">09 Library Of Congress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">18 University Of Tulsa<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">29 Yale University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">37 National Library Of Scotland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">40 Huntington Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">41 Sold by Biblio to ? S\/C G\/J<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">42 Godfrey Holdstock S\/C<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">44 Stanford University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">45 University Of Melbourne<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">46 Lilly Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">49 UCLA Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">58 Dee MacLean (Jack and Edith Eliot)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">65 Alexander Turnbull Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">68 Sold by Harper Field Auctioneers to ? 2018 S\/C<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">71 Simon Dunant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">76 Ann Bolam Gifted by Hart-Davies S\/C with George Cukor written on it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">80 Ann Bolam<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">81 Library of Congress (Jean Hersholt)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">84 Boston University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">87 University Of Texas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">88 Bodleian Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">89 British Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">92 Cambridge University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">93 London Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">94 British Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">100 University of York (Ronald Storrs) Gifted by Sir Rupert Hart-Davies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you to all the libraries that took the time to reply to my enquiries to check numbers and dedications etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While talking with Johnny Mains we were trying to see if there was a link between Alan Bott and Herbert van Thal. They were both friendly with Sir Hugh Walpole and it is a distinct possibility that they could have met up socially at Brackenburn, Walpole&#8217;s house in the Lake District. 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